Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,723, Edmund Gale, Mass.

SERVICE
Wash.
Gale, Edmund
NUMBER _____
8.32723
CONTENTS

561
Massachusetts Roll
Edmund Gale, Mass. Line } Capt Stone 1777. War. } Sergeant 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of April 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of May 1818 and sent to He  ow  Samuel Putnam , Salem, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 5 months 3/30  $40.80
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued Salem, Essex Co.
Modification sent July 26th 1820 to Isaac Tucker, Salem, Mass.
noted 21 Jan 1821 sent to Mr. Brownlee for a letter out and

Edmund Gale, Private, Promoted to a Serjt. Claimed April - 1878
Certificate Gt. Washington 8 yrs 5 mo -
Correct

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex Salem ss: Be it known that on this second day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen, Before me Samuel Putnam Esquire Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts personally appeared Edward Gale of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth afore- said, and on oath declared as follows viz:-
That he served the United States during the revolutionary war against the common enemy; that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for a support:- That he enlisted to serve as a private during the War, into the company commanded by Capt: Enos Stone of Lenox, in the Regiment in the Massachusetts line commanded by Col: Samuel Brewer of Tyringham, on the tenth day of January A.D. 1777; and upon a new arrangement of the army, Brewer's Regiment being incorporated with Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's Regt., he was promoted to be first Sergeant in Capt: Henry Sewall's company of the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col: E Ebenezer Sprout and served as such to the end of the war; and having served six years and five months, was honorably discharged on the tenth day of June A.D.

AD. 1783, as appears by his discharge duly authenticated and signed by George Washington Com d in Chief. - And that he doth hereby relinquish every claim to any pension heretofore allowed him by the Laws of the United States.
Edmund Gale.
Wherefore, the said Gale having subscribed and sworn to the truth of the foregoing declaration, and it appearing to my satisfaction that he served the United States in the Revolutionary War on the continental establishment against the common enemy for the term of nine months & more, I hereby certify and transmit the testimony in this case and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to a Law of the United States passed on the 18 th March AD. 1818. -
And I have also caused my seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed: S. Putnam J.L.T.6
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S. Putnam Judge of the Sup. Jud. Court of Mass s
Edmund Gale
Sergeant Gale
Apr. 2. 1818
Apr. 17. 1818 - The said Gale came before me on oath further declared that he is sixty six years of age. And that he was in the battle of Hubbardston - in 1777 and was taken a Prisoner - on the same day that Col d Eben r Francis was killed - Edmund Gale Subscribed and Sworn to before
S. Putnam Just. S. J. Court of Mass s }

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said County within & for said County of Essex do certify, that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of said County - that the above is his proper signature & thereby that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court.
Salem Apr. 20. 1818
Att. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Edm d Gale N o 561
561
May 1818
aged 68
no real estate or income
very infirm
worth only $25.00
Edm d Gale
Salem
Con
Sept 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Edmund Gale , resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 568 — — now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Edmund Gale late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight — — — — dollars per month, to commence on the Second day of April — — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** * L. S. * *****
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this Sixteenth day of May — — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
 A plain Mahogany Desk, made in 1704 $5.00.  Three Tables in use ever since 1704 4.00.  Two other old pine tables 5.50.  A Looking glass 1.50.  Fifteen pine bottom chairs, very old 3.00  Kitchen & Cooking utensils in family use 5.00  Utensils used in his victualing Shop 5.00  $ 25.00 
And the said Edmund Gale declares that he owns no Real Estate — he is Sixty eight years of age, and is disabled from labor by a Hernia and the Hemorrhoids , that

That his wife, aged 38, is living and has lost the sight of one eye, — that he keeps a small victualling Shop in Salem, — that he has long owed several large debts, which his Creditors have forborne to demand on account of his indigent circumstances and misfortunes, — That he has no person in his family but his wife.
The said Edmund Gale enlisted in the Spring of 1777 to serve during the war in Capt. Stone's Company in Col d Brewers Regiment in Mass. ts Lins; and served in that Regiment under said Brewer and under Col. Sprout till the end of the war. Capt. Henry Sewall was his Captain in Sprout's Regiment.
Edmund Gale.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Edmund Gale do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Edmund Gale.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Edmund Gale took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Sam l Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty five dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this _____ day of _____ A. D.
Attr. Ichabod Tucker

32 723 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32 723
Edmund Gale
Levy Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dep. Jan. 21. 1829
M c Gale discharge Robertson Sal.
To the care of the Hon. Benj a W. Browninshield Rep t in Congress Am

Edmund Gale, a Revolutionary Pensioner, on the Roll of Mass ts Agency, solicits that his Original Discharge, signed by Genl. Washington, and filed with his applica- tion for a Pension in 1818, may be restored to him.
A Copy, attested by the Judge, is herewith enclosed.
Salem, Oct. 24, 1828

Discharge (copy)
Sergeant Gale

By His Excellency George Washington, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
These are to CERTIFY That the bearer hereof Edmund Gale Serjeant in the second Massachusetts Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States Six years and five months — and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby Discharged from the American Army. GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the tenth day of June 1703. —
G. Washington
By his EXCELLENCY'S Command, J. Trumbull Secy
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
William Serry Adjutant.
THE above Serjeant Gale has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for Six Years faithful Service.
E. Sprout L. Col. Comt H.
This is a true copy of the original deliv d to me this 2. April 1818
S. Putnam J. S. J. Court —

HEAD QUARTERS, June Tenth. 1703.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Gale, Edmund GRADE Sergeant LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4213 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 23, 1796 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.